George Sand Quotes

All art is quite useless.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Art is truth.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.